The Great Flood: Ovid
The Great Flood: mythological story about a great destruction that once befell the earth. There are several variants; the Biblical version is the most famous. The possibility that there is a historical event behind the story (a local flood in southern Babyloniain the twenty-eighth century BCE) cannot be excluded.
Several ancient authors accept the story of the Great Flood. The following version is from the Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE - 17 CE), in the translation by Samuel Garth, John Dryden and others. In this version, the degeneration of mankind is a parallel of the revolt of the giants.